Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’ - eviltoast
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Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.

  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thank you very much for the effort! I also searched for text or video, but found none.

    I understand now what you previously meant, streaming code via TV.

    That’s what it sounded like when you loaded a program and it’s exactly what they’d play on the TV so you could create your tape.

    Now I have a new confusion: Why would they let the speaker play the bits being processed? It surely was technically possible to load a program into memory without sending anything to the speaker. Or wasn’t it, and it was a technical necessity? Or was it an artistic choice?

    • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I assume it was because they used ordinary tape recorders, that people would otherwise use as dictaphones or to play music. I guess there wasn’t a way to transfer the data silently because the technology was designed to play sound? We had to wait for the floppy disk for silent-ish loading. Ish because they click-clacked a lot, but that was moving parts rather than the code itself.